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The Germans had the best war *music, though.

Franz Liszt, Les préludes

Viktoriya Yermolyeva was born in Kiev in 1978. She graduated with honours from Kiev Lysenko Specialized Music High School (1996), piano class of Prof. Iryna Lipatova and National P. Tchaikovsky Music Academy of the Ukraine (2000), piano class of Prof. Igor Ryabov.
She studied in the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Weimar (D), postgraduate course with Prof. Peter Waas and simultaneously in the years 2001-2003, studied in the International Piano Academy “Incontri col Maestro” in Imola (I) with Prof. Lazar Berman.

She won prizes in many piano competitions, among others:
1st Prize at “Filippo Trevisan” International for Piano Interpretation (I).
Winner of The Grachtenfestival 2005 Amsterdam
1st Prize at 35th International Competition “”Vincenzo Bellini”(I)
1st Prize at 20th International Piano Competition “Citta di Marsala” (I)
1st Prize at International Piano Competition “Citta’ Di Trani” (I).
1st Prize at 4th Sigismund Thalberg International Piano Prize (I).
Grand Prix at 9th Pierre Lantier International Music Competition in duet with V.Dmitriev (flute) (Fr).

La Campanella = "The Bells," by Franz Liszt.

It's not Bach. Definitely Romantic Era at the very earliest. I'd guess a Liszt, he was a crazy enough composer. I was a pretty good pianist at age 14, but I couldn't play nearly as fast.

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Liszt wrote music for increasing one's heart rate...and for the hummingbird people

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Funny clip.

therealblankman, i either don't understand your point or i just disagree:

Liszt / Mozart

Franz_Liszt / Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart

F. Liszt is not morphologically analogous to M. Ozart -- and if anyone is going to search, they'll be looking for the composer's last name.

It is really F.Liszt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Liszt

Sorry, plastiquemonkey, it's Fliszt, not F.Liszt. You don't see anyone write M Ozart, do you? Please fix.

franz liszt's hungarian rhapsody #2...

I respect your opinion, chrismear. And its true that he can be at times distractingly expressive with the rest of his body. However, this is Horowitz 'show-off' transcription of Franz Liszt's already virtuoso-level piece... a work that practically beats you over the head with its incredibly massive, exaggerated mood changes. Lang Lang was a technical perfectionist at age 15, and now the only direction for him to go is the direction that he feels the music speak.

When I saw him, he played a number of more subtle, less flashy pieces, but was sure to include pieces that the crowd knew and pieces like this that were full of virtuoso flourish. If you get the chance to see him, you have to have a pretty big stick up your ass not to enjoy yourself.

That said, one member of my group when I saw Lang Lang was a visiting scholar of Debussy, and he wondered when he'll stop exploring his own ideas enough to play Debussy and Rachmoninov like everyone else...